How do I find out about concerts? How do I get more details about something I heard over the air? How do I submit events to WORT’s Music Calendars? Who do I contact with changes or cancellations?

WORT’s Music Calendars are a great resource to find out about concerts in all genres and places. Usually you’ll find details in the online listing or links to get more information. There’s a link to to submit your event at the top of the calendar page. You can also submit events, changes and cancellations to calendar@wortfm.org.

Contact Information

Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Once you figure it out, there’s a “Buy It!” link next to each track in online playlists that leads you to a place where you can buy songs and albums, and by doing it that way a small portion of each purchase goes to support WORT.

Theater in Our Community

On Monday’s show, our host John Quinlan interviewed some youth from Proud Theater for the first part of the show, that focused on two examples of LGBT-themed theater with upcoming productions.He interviewed Brian Wild and Sol Kelley-Jones (adult leaders) along with three youth (all Members of the Youth Artistic Committee) – Adrian Conner (the youth music director), Emily Ptak-Freeman (a member of the Youth Artistic Committee), and Taylor Smith (the youth artistic director). Because it was a school holiday, it was a rare opportunity to hear from these young people firsthand. Throughout the year, they perform at events throughout the community, educating as they go, and this week’s performances are the yearly culmination of that work.Their next performances are onThursday, May 30th (7:30 pm), Friday, May 31st (7:30 pm) and Saturday, June 1st 2:30 and 7:30 pm at Edgewood College’s Black Box Theater. These Thursday through Saturday performances will feature original comedy and drama vignettes, and musical pieces, written and produced by the youth, drawn on the youths’ own experiences. It’s a community treasure we too often take for granted, now moving into its 13th year.
Also, on June 8th, in conjunction with Milwaukee Pridefest, the Madison chapter of Proud Theater will be performing together with the new Wausau and Milwaukee Proud Theater chapters during Pridefest weekend. The groups will be doing three joint performances on Saturday, June 8 on the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center’s Community Room Stage at 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

For the rest of the show, John Quinlan talked about a special production of a new work about a gay male couple who were visible civic leaders in Mineral Point beginning in the 1930s and throughout their 40 year long partnership. Back in the 1930’s, Bob Neal and Edgar Hellum of Mineral Point began a 40 year long gay partnership that occurred in the full light of day in a small city proud to call them civic leaders. We’ll be beginning tomorrow’s “A Public Affair,” at noon CT tomorrow with a brief interview about “The Bachelors Screenplay,” a reading based on this piece of remarkable local LGBT history being performed both in Chicago and Mineral Point this coming week. “The Bachelors Screenplay” features a gay love story set in the Great Depression, written by Chicago playwrights Martha Meyer and Rick Kinnebrew. Readings are occurring this Wednesday at 7pm in Chicago, and this Sunday at 2pm historic Mineral Point.

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About A Public Affair

A Public Affair is WORT's daily hour-long talk program. It aims to engage listeners in a conversation on social, cultural, and political issues of importance. The guests range from local activists and scholars to notable national and international figures.